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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.

I'm endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don't.

To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.

I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world.

I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they grew up, I always find very interesting.

I grew up in a one-parent family. I worked my way through college, I had very average grades and I was very average looking, but I've lived a remarkable life only because I believed I could.

I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.

Families interest me - I'm part of one; most of us come from one. And I'm curious about the choices made in life, how they affect things, and how those choices happen.